Sept 15 - UVic Bookstore
I have to say that I'm excited to read bell hooks' new volume Belonging: A Culture of Place ($25.95), freshly picked up today. I need to get back to Scott Russell Sanders' Conservationist Manifesto first, through which I've been dragging my feet for some time now, but I think matching these two books will be really interesting (and hopefully invigorating as well!).
Edit: I've been moving casually through hooks' Belonging, and honestly, it's been a really long time since I've seen as slipshod an editing job as this. Routledge ("An imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business," as the copyright page sings) should be embarrassed by the quality of this text. Or maybe it's an antipatriarchy thing, but it doesn't feel like it. An extra comma to leave two in sequence, typos that a spellchecker won't catch, a misquotation from a psalm: none of this feels like bell hooks' fault, so until I learn otherwise, I'm blaming Routledge for busting up what would otherwise be a really thoughtful, rewarding read.
Edit: I've been moving casually through hooks' Belonging, and honestly, it's been a really long time since I've seen as slipshod an editing job as this. Routledge ("An imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business," as the copyright page sings) should be embarrassed by the quality of this text. Or maybe it's an antipatriarchy thing, but it doesn't feel like it. An extra comma to leave two in sequence, typos that a spellchecker won't catch, a misquotation from a psalm: none of this feels like bell hooks' fault, so until I learn otherwise, I'm blaming Routledge for busting up what would otherwise be a really thoughtful, rewarding read.
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Maybe I'm missing that it's an antipatriarchy thing, and maybe that's why there's no index, I dunno.
But honestly, page 49 misquotes Psalm 121; uses "or" for "our"; uses "retuned" for "returned" ("Seeking healing I have necessarily retuned to the Kentucky hills"); and adds a stray "the" ("Now past the age of the fifty..."). You be the judge.